A diocotron instability is a
plasma instability created by two sheets of
charge
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slipping past each other. Energy is dissipated in the form of two
surface waves which
propagate in opposite directions, one flowing over the other. This instability is the plasma analog of the
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in
fluid mechanics
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